Alongside each of those, what does it say in the password column, Yes or No? My default WAMP installation (though quite a bit older than yours) defaulted to no password which I have left for testing, but you're specifying a password in that file. I wondered if it's something simple like having it configured to use a password, but not having a password set for root?

Alongside each of those, what does it say in the password column, Yes or No? My default WAMP installation (though quite a bit older than yours) defaulted to no password which I have left for testing, but you're specifying a password in that file. I wondered if it's something simple like having it configured to use a password, but not having a password set for root?

It says No for all of them. How to correctly configure for a password then?

On mine, you just click the 'edit' button on the far right hand end of the row for the user you want to edit, then one of the fields is to select either 'no password', or to enter a password for the account.

Problem here is you're specifying a password, but the account is not set up for one, so you fail authentication.